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Research by Nationwide has revealed the staggering impact of the cost of living on households in Crawley, with over one in five households now left with less than £100 per month—twice as many families as two years ago. During the pandemic, Crawley’s economy took the biggest economic hit in England. Yet, despite the struggles faced…
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This week is National Apprenticeship Week, yet as the country takes the chance to mark the opportunity which an apprenticeship can offer a young worker, new analysis from Crawley Labour reveals apprenticeships have fallen 22% since 2016 in Crawley. Apprenticeship starts have fallen from 940 in 2016 to just 730 in the latest figures. To…
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2,430 children in West Sussex set to miss half their lessons by 2026 as Labourunveils plan to tackle “generation challenge” of persistent absence in schools. Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has unveiled a new long-term plan to tackle the “generational challenge” of persistent absence of children from school, after new data from the party exposed…
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Today is Small Business Saturday, an event now in its tenth year and still making the case for people to support small local businesses in their community. The sad reality is that small businesses don’t close because people don’t value them, they close because people don’t use them. I know that during a cost of…
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New analysis from Crawley Labour reveals the cost of Conservative inaction on ‘no-fault’ evictions as 199 local families have faced proceedings to eject them from their home in the years since the Tories promised to ban the practice in April 2019. ‘No-fault evictions’, also known as Section 21 notices, allow landlords to order tenants to…
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After a campaign organised by the Labour Party, the Government have announced that it has instructed train operators to retain their ticket offices following significant objections from passengers. Crawley Labour party ran an innovative campaign at Three Bridges and Crawley stations designed to make passengers aware that the railway operators were intending to close ticket…
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Retail crime is soaring, with increasing numbers of shopworkers facing appalling violence and abuse as part of the process. This ‘Respect for Shopworkers Week’ I have written with a number of Labour parliamentary candidates to the Home Secretary calling for greater action to tackle the retail crime blighting our high streets. —– Dear Home Secretary,…
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—- The Rt Hon Suella Braverman MPHome Secretary2 Marsham StreetLondonSW1P 4DF Friday 10th November 2023 Dear Home Secretary, Since 7th October, the world has paid witness to an appalling loss of Israeli and Palestinian life in Israel and Gaza. For Jewish and Muslim communities across the UK, many with relatives living in the region, this…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 